Should We Have Zoos

WALT: write to persuade someone of our ideas in an argument.

 I believe that it is cruel to keep animals in zoos. They can get scared and they have the right to be free, just like us. It costs a lot of money to get an animal from their natural habitat to a zoo, why should we spend all that money if we’re just going to be cruel to them?

 It is cruel to keep animals in a zoo. If an animal is not given enough food they will misbehave, when they misbehave they will be drugged to make them calm. To many drugs can be bad for their health. Why should we punish them, if it's our fault that their misbehaving? In poor countries, animals have to live in small cages and are only given a little bit of food. It’s wrong. What if the animal doesn’t like what its being fed? In the wild they can have what they want, when they want.

 Animals have the right to be free. They can get bored and lonely in zoos. Wild animals need to be in the wild, that's why they’re called wild animals. Only a fool would think zoos are okay. However zoos do have breeding programmes for endangered animals but the animals born in breeding programmes are never released into the wild, so the wild population does not go up.

 It costs a lot of money to get an animal to a zoo. Sometimes they die on the way to whatever zoo their going to. It is unkind to ship animals to a zoo. As an example of zoo cruelty, SeaWorld in Australia has polar bears. The temperature in Australia can reach up to forty degrees in the summer, when polar bears are meant to be in below zero environments.

 I’m not saying that all zoos are bad. Only 99% are bad. Animals belong in the wild and we should let them live the life that they deserve.